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POAM’s Voice Heard in DC

House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) recently announced the inclusion of $1.2 billion in his FY2010 Supplemental Appropriations bill to hire approximately 5,525 law enforcement officers. PO...

Tom Griffin Retires

By Ed Jacques, LEJ Editor Over 40 years of experience in the police and labor profession were sorely missed by POAM and hundreds of its members when Business Agent Tom Griffin retired in April, 2010. ...

MCOLES Report — Equal Opportunity Recession

By Jim DeVries, MCOLES Board Member State government is gradually contracting and changing in adjustment to steadily decreasing revenue. If the state’s fiscal problems were confined to the state...

A Decade after the Millennium

By Barry Sherman Who would have guessed that this state and country would be in the condition they are in today — only ten years after the turn of the century? Let’s go to back to Dec. 31st 19...


From the President’s Desk – Spring 2010

Good day to our members and friends. I’d like to share some headlines with you. Some may be short on details but I am hopeful you will use our communications system (either e-mail or phone) to acqui...

The Cutting Edge – Bullet Proof Seats

Bullet Proof Seats Save Police Departments Big Money By Ed Jacques, LEJ Editor Let’s describe a scene that is all too familiar to law enforcement personnel. It’s the unavoidable, ever present hole...

Cereal Killers – Cops & Doughnuts

By Ed Jacques, LEJ Editor Allen White fondly remembers frequenting the Clare City Bakery as a young man growing up in Clare, Michigan. As a matter of fact so did his father and his fathers’ father. ...

Health Insurance Reform Update

I am writing today to give you an update on the status of the health insurance reform bill. In the Senate, two committees have jurisdiction over health insurance reform: the Health, Education, Labor, ...

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